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18 Dec 2012, 1:38 pm
Last Monday, the ACLU brought these concerns to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, a body of independent experts that next year will examine the United States’ report on its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a fundamental human rights treaty the U.S. ratified in 1992. [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 7:52 pm
Leading scholars who have researched and published in the area of socio-economic rights (especially those with expertise on China and/or India, or international human rights and development) will be presenting papers at this Conference. [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 11:48 pm
I have suggested elsewhere that the vast and still-burgeoning literature about the interpretation of texts, symbols, and meaning is important to theorizing about the nature of inference from evidence.1This is because many problems of factual inference involve the job of making guesses about human aims and meanings. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 11:00 pm
Nonetheless, meeting human rights obligations is the minimum requirement for state policy, and the Wilson decision should not be considered to indicate that Ms Wilson’s treatment during the prosecution process amounted to “best practice”. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 5:34 pm
The Court’s decision was sufficiently significant to prompt Jonathan Simon to contemplate the prospect that it might signal the revitalization of human dignity as a meaningful constitutional value in the United States [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 4:50 pm
Recent coverage in the New York Times is chilling: a modest rise in the ocean levels will flood out of existence a good deal of the United States, including but by no means only New Orleans. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 4:50 pm
Recent coverage in the New York Times is chilling: a modest rise in the ocean levels will flood out of existence a good deal of the United States, including but by no means only New Orleans. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 4:30 pm
Unfortunately, federal agencies in the United States systematically undercount the benefits of rulemaking, causing regulators to forsake the implementation of lifesaving measures that would have been enacted were benefits estimated more accurately. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 10:36 am
In a modern democracy, the state exercises such powers only in exchange for strict guarantees of due process, equal protection, and respect for fundamental human rights. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 9:06 am
After 90 days of passage of this Act no Department or Agency of the United States shall publish new rules or regulations, or finalize or otherwise enforce or give lawful effect to draft rules or regulations affecting the Internet until a period of at least 2 years from the enactment of this legislation has elapsed. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 1:43 pm
In United States v. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 12:52 pm
The findings are among the highlights of the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) "Provisional Statement on the State of Global Climate in 2012," released at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar (COP18), where thousands of representatives from governments, international organizations and civil society are meeting to advance ways to cut global carbon emissions and pollution. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 11:07 am
As is often commented there were only 37 words: Sec. 901. a) No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, . . . [read post]
25 Nov 2012, 2:28 pm
Al- Sirri v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSC 54 - Supreme Court clarifies meaning of “guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations” for the purpose of refusing refugee status, two applicants lose appeal. [read post]
23 Nov 2012, 5:16 pm
But the truth is that the history of the United States is not a story of the triumph of western democratic ideals. [read post]
21 Nov 2012, 4:00 am
” At the birth of the United States, copyright was couched in terms of property more often that not. [read post]
20 Nov 2012, 1:45 pm
Last Sunday's Boston Globe had an interesting essay about the United States' involvement in the tribunal, as a form of diplomacy, of competing against the massive investment that China is making in Cambodia by exporting Western values of justice and due process. [read post]
14 Nov 2012, 5:01 am
The only antidote is the coming together of people to unite their small individual forces into a huge force. [read post]
12 Nov 2012, 4:00 am
”United States v. [read post]
10 Nov 2012, 11:14 am
Hence, globalization has come to shape even this dramatic realm of human life. [read post]
